I had to do it. I loved how the ratatouille turned out so much, I had to make it with orange juice, even though I didn’t think that it was going to make that big a difference. That, and the saffron, were the only things I hadn’t put in, and I really wanted to see […]

The veggies always look so good when I first start cooking with them, before I cut them up. The only problem with this recipe, from the Julia Child Mastering the Art of French Cooking, is that she doens’t always say how much in cups the veggies are, or how many veggies should be used. I […]

I don’t always manage to cook all the veggies I get in my basket from my CSA before the next week comes about. This week, I was bound and determined to do so. I looked at what I had, and found a recipe that would work, and spend the day, every time I went into […]

So, as I said yesterday, I knew I could do this better, so I tried the trick of the Shepard’s pie, and made a mashed potato topping. I added yogurt, and thought that would be good enough for the mashed potatoes, and then thought I had done the same thing for the filling, as I […]

Wow, still more carrots. I had to figure out something cool to do with them, and then I came across a recipe for Savory Autumn Leaf Pies in the Vegan Lunch Box book, by Jennifer McCann. It was actually for little individual pies, but it also had a variation where you could make it into […]

First let me say that this is what I burned my hand on. More on that later, but my hand still stings, and I am rather annoyed that this was the cause of it. So, one of the cookbooks I picked up was The Moosewood Restaurant New classics. I hadn’t made anything from it, but […]

A while ago, when Cartoonist started middle school, I thought I would help her with ideas for her lunch, and bought a book called “The Healthy Lunchbox.” I had forgotten that we even had the book, until I started looking through the cookbook shelves to see what I could come up with for her to […]

Wow, this was a great recipe, and we loved how it came out. We discovered this one because Cartoonist has to make her lunches, this year, in high school, and we wanted a cook book that was made for lunches, and packable lunches. What we bought was “Vegan Lunch box” by Jennifer McCann. We figured […]

We received eggplant in our basket this week, only one, but a trip to the farmer’s market fixed that, and we were able to make baba ganoush. I was all excited, as I had never made it before, and the first thing I noticed, once I got home, was that I had to make tahini. […]

As often happens there is a lag time when things have to go into the fridge and wait. Once I got the mix off the pot, I had to blend it again, with the apple sauce I had made the other day. Problem was that it was quite hot, so I couldn’t just reach my […]